Following Muhammad Ali’s refusal to be drafted into the U.S. Army in June of 1967 and his then being immediately relieved of both his world title and his license
When James J. Jeffries, heavyweight champion of the world, retired undefeated in 1905, few were in any doubt that they had just seen the greatest heavyweight fighter of all
On this day in 1967, at the huge Astrodome in Houston Texas, world heavyweight champion … read more On This Day: Muhammad Ali Vs. Ernie Terrell And The “What’s
Casualties of a cruel sport. Broken spokes on boxing’s eternal wheel. Archetypes for the noble poor. Or, to cast such reductive generalizing aside, perhaps just men who made a
A comprehensive roster of boxers who dabbled in the darker arts of ring-craft would rival a catalogue of the soldiers who ringed the walls of Troy, or a list
The popularity of boxing has waxed and waned over the decades, but the 1950s saw a new source of anxiety emerge for professional prizefighting: television. With boxing featured on
That first historic Ali vs Frazier confrontation in 1971, without question one of the biggest sports events of all-time, took a significant toll on both “Smokin’ Joe” and “The
“From my first fight I started to run away.” James John Corbett, often referred to as “Gentleman Jim,” never cared much for the brutish nature of the sport of
Following his surprise defeat to Muhammad Ali in one of the most historic fights in boxing history, George Foreman returned from Africa not just a former champion, but a
There can be no doubt that Muhammad Ali remains the most written-about boxer ever, but it wasn’t until 2017 that the public was offered the longest and most ambitious account
